This paper reports on the RICA−J multiagent programming framework, which provides executable constructs for each of the organizational, ACL-based modelling abstractions of the R...
Juan Manuel Serrano, Sascha Ossowski, Sergio Sauga...
The deployment of component-based software applications usually relies on a centralized repository where the components are stored. This paper describes a peer-to-peer approach for...
In this article we investigate a novel execution paradigm—ML-like pattern-matching— for XML query processing. We show that such a paradigm is well adapted for a common and freq...
Abstract. In many situations, a set of hard constraints encodes the feasible configurations of some system or product over which users have preferences. We consider the problem of...
We study the impact on observational semantics for SOC of priority mechanisms which combine dynamic priority with local pre-emption. We define manageable notions of strong and wea...
Rosario Pugliese, Francesco Tiezzi, Nobuko Yoshida